Pausing this bot for a while. There's a very large number of new Lemmy instances with a few active users, but thousands of registered accounts (seemingly spam). Total user counts should be considered inaccurate until this spam account issue is fixed!

You can learn more about this here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2355 (but please don't spam the Lemmy developers with requests to fix this; they're aware and have a lot on their plates).

How to defeat account creation spambots. · Issue #2355 · LemmyNet/lemmy

A few trolls have created lemmy account creation spambots, that take advantage of the fact that: You can disable captcha, register rate limits, email verification, and account registration, to crea...

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